Wooster woman gets prison for violating intervention terms

WOOSTER -- A Wooster woman who was arrested in January for her role in an aggravated robbery in Summit County was given added prison time on local charges.

Megan L. Rhea, 20, of 8049 Angling Road, was sentenced to six months in prison for violating the terms of her intervention in lieu of conviction in Wayne County Common Pleas Court on a trafficking in clonazepam charge, a fifth-degree felony.

Judge Corey Spitler ran her sentence consecutive to her two-year prison sentence she started serving in May from a Summit County case in which she helped a man commit a robbery using a knife.

John Williams, assistant prosecuting attorney, recommended time from the Wayne County case run consecutively to her robbery charge in Summit County "because of the largeness of the event" she was involved while on intervention, despite pleas for concurrent time by her attorney, Public Defender Heather Hillary.

In Summit County, Rhea was arrested Jan. 11 for her role in helping a Canton man commit an aggravated robbery using a knife, with the help of a third man from Akron.

She ultimately pleaded guilty to complicity to commit aggravated robbery, a second-degree felony, in Summit County and was sentenced to two years in prison beginning May 14. She is at the Ohio Reformatory for Women in Marysville.

Locally, Rhea was indicted in October 2012 for trafficking and was granted intervention in lieu of conviction in September before her arrest in Summit County.

She will be placed on three years of post-release control in Wayne County upon her release from prison.

Reporter Steve Huszai can be reached at 330-287-1645 or shuszai@the-daily-record.com. He is @GeneralSmithie on Twitter.